skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's your call. If you're the sort of person that's willing to spend $2,000 on a M4 Ultra (which doesn't quite exist yet but we can pretend it does), then I honest to god do not understand why you'd refuse to spend that same money on a Jetson Orin with the same amount of memory in a smaller footprint with better performance and lower power consumption.

Unless you're specifically speccing out a computer for mobile use, the price premium you spend on a Mac isn't for better software or faster hardware. If you can tolerate Linux or Windows, I don't see why you'd even consider Mac hardware for your desktop. In the OP's position, suggesting Apple hardware literally makes no sense. They're not asking for the best hardware that runs MacOS, they're asking for the best hardware for AI.

> If I could spend $4k on a non-Apple turn key solution that I could reasonably manage in my house, I would totally consider it.

You can't pay Apple $4k for a turnkey solution, either. MacOS is borderline useless for headless inference; Vulkan compute and OpenCL are both MIA, package managers break on regular system updates and don't support rollback, LTS support barely exists, most coreutils are outdated and unmaintained, Asahi features things that MacOS doesn't support and vice-versa... you can't fool me into thinking that's a "turn key solution" any day of the week. If your car requires you to pick a package manager after you turn the engine over, then I really feel sorry for you. The state of MacOS for AI inference is truly no better than what Microsoft did with DirectML. By some accounts it's quite a bit worse.
My phone is a lot more sensitive to water intrusion. Having dropped totally non-waterproof flashlights in pools as a kid they'll generally still work even if totally flooded. Even if they get bad enough to stop working they'll almost certainly work perfectly once dried out.

That's not the case with a modern smartphone.
You are going to die and you cannot change it at all.
We had 4 Dell Itanium racks (circa 2003) all fail with the same exact power-supply overvoltage issue over the course of 4 months. Maybe we got unlucky.
I actually think LLMs power comes as a result of their deep semantic understanding. For example, embeddings of gendered language, like "king" and "queen," have a very similar vector difference to "man" and "woman". This is true across all sorts of concepts if you really dive into the embeddings. That doesn't come without semantic understanding.

As another example, LLMs are kind of magical when it comes to what I'd call "bad memory spelunking". Is there a video game, book, or movie from your childhood, which you only have some vague fragments of, which you'd like to rediscover? Format those fragments into a request for a list of candidates, and if your description contains just enough detail, you will activate that semantic understanding to uncover what you were looking for.

I'd encourage you to check out 3blue1brown's LLM series for more on this!

I think it's true they lack a lot of information and understanding, and that they probably won't get better without more data, which we are running out of. That's sort of the point I was originally trying to make.
I worked in those countries and more; never had those issues, but then again, I don't worry as much about details as you seem to do. Who reports that they are running a business in another country? The Belgians, like many others in the eu, are on paper a stickler for the rules, but in reality, not many people care or do that. Especially in Belgium where I heard locals at the chess club call them guidelines as a sort of joke.

That you need to be a resident to open a bank account is silly, I admit, but KYC and AML are a problem banks have to work with. Even in the EU, you can disappear a bit over borders: my birth country tax office lost me only after one jump and I moved 6 times since then. I always have to call them and explain things as they still don't have a clue that I am not in in my home country anymore; it's been 20+ years...

Your experience sounds a while ago; things did get somewhat easier; my gripes are opening bank accounts (but we have neobanks now; not sure if that works with rent) which should be eu wide, nummerplates (you have to import your car if you move somewhere which I do find nonsense; it's a tax thing) and renting. The rest is pretty smooth. If these things, and preferably tax, can be done eu wide, it's good. I just do the stuff I agree with and ignore the rest; it is what the locals in every country I have been to do too: hell, I am the only one (that I know of) paying (significant) taxes in my town; people laugh at me at parties.
I didn't say it was impossible, just that the flashlight comparison is not great because it's not only a much easier design to seal but it's also a lot more tolerant of leaks.
Well, Google’s willingness to pay potential competitors tens of billions of dollars per year to disincentivize developing a competing search engine is kind of a moat.
Congress fixes this or we continue to drag ourselves towards worse failure modes.
No, that's not true. All the market power is with the providers, which is why they're responsible for something like 9x total health care spend in the US than all health insurers combined.

Medicare is better than private insurers at regulating prices (to wit: when Anthem tried to adopt Medicare's rules for anesthesiology comp, they were excoriated, and the governor of New York proposed a statute preventing them from doing it). But they still wildly overpay for services; in fact, what they pay is not really materially different from what private insurers do (it's less, but not by that much).
It's not like revenues from streaming are that bad these days, they're the highest they've been in ~20 years. The late 90s massive profits of CDs were more of an aberration rather than some natural order. https://www.statista.com/chart/17244/us-music-revenue-by-for... https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
I agree, I'm not claiming to be a better person for giving credit where it's due; It's just my habit.

I stayed away from using LLMs for a long time but then came a point when it became a disadvantage to not use one, especially as a person belonging to disadvantaged section of the society I'm forced use any & all forms of technology which helps me & others like me to have some equity.
I imagine Bible passages, at least the more widely quoted and discussed ones, appear many, many times in the various available translations, in inspirational, devotional, scholarly articles, in sermon transcripts, etc. This surely reinforces almost word-for-word recall. SEO garage is a bit different each time, so common SEO-reinforced themes might be recalled in LLM output, but not word for word.
Neomedievalism and Transnational Nobility
You remember your view of what you saw.

If there was a mix of articles, then there will be a mix of people claiming that they personally saw all one side.

Several others in this thread claim they saw cooling articles in the 90s. I never saw a single cooling article but saw many many warming articles and knew even very conservative Republican families that got worked up about the dangers of global warming.

Anybody citing a single article or their personal experience is degrading the conversation. A single person's recollection is not even evidence when we can compare to an entire historical record.
What this leads to are developers turning to some random unofficial github code wrapping all your pci regulated transactions
The submitted URL ends in "/t", remove the "t" and it loads.
> He's making it sound like Altman's just following a well trod path

Well trodden and failing path. You misread the article if you considered it any endorsement of OpenAI’s plan.
So now you have a different complaint, without even addressing my questions?

It's good to be truly skeptical, but to be completely contrary is a mental trap.
It's likely 5x as expensive as a used 7020: https://www.ebay.com/itm/135220765637

OTOH it's of course new and modern vs used and aging.
Also just other types of tabacco. Either untaxed loose leaf or cheap cigarettes from overseas.
The LLMs have been fed the critique and analysis and discussion of all manner of biblical passages. The LLMs usually give great interpretations and even contrast different theological takes on such passages.
Intelligent design was floating around in classrooms but we don't need to pretend that it was anything other than a fringe political and religious belief.
Interesting result but probably predictable since you’re trying to use the LLM as a database. But I think you’re onto something in that your experiments can provide data to inform (and hopefully dissuade) creation of applications that similarly try to use LLMs for exact lookups.

I think the experiment of using the LLM to recall described verses - eg “what’s the verse where Jesus did X”- is a much more interesting use. I think also that the LLM could be handy as, or to construct, a concordance. But I’d just use a document or database if I wanted to look up specific verses.
People really don't want to believe that "just make it legal" actually works for some reason. There's primary and secondary industry in organized crime and cutting off the primary starves the secondary.

A drug policy that makes it so that nobody who does party drugs has contact with a dealer breaks the entire supply chain because there's no outside money coming in.
Just finished reading pegasus today. Fascinating how this will keep evolving, keep getting worse and we might as well act as if we are getting surveilled. Too much incentive to not have adversarial actors. Link for the lazy - not an affiliate link - https://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-Threatens-Privacy-Dignity-Dem...
"Bad people can't be recognised on sight; there's no point in trying" https://youtu.be/cj-pZ6rgoN4
Naltrexone is a very weird drug, as it's both an agonist and antagonist of it's target receptor (but mostly an antagonist). As a result paradoxical effects are to be expected.
> The EEA has much the same scope as the EEC.

The EEA had several significant exclusions compared to the EEC/EC at the time of its founding: agriculture and fisheries (although it has some application to trade in those products), customs, external trade, taxation, monetary policy. Furthermore, under the Amsterdam treaty (effective 1999) the EC gained responsibilities for immigration, visas, asylum, and judicial cooperation in civil law (which were transferred from the non-EC part of the EU), and the EEA was not extended to cover those new areas (although some of them apply to the EEA member states through their independent membership of Schengen). The EEA is also excluded from the scope of the EU trade mark (f.k.a. community trade mark) and EU unitary patents. The EEA agreement promises future negotiations on extending EU patents to the EEA, but thus far nothing much has happened there, in part because actually getting a common EU patent system up and running turned out to be very difficult and despite being first proposed in the 1970s it took until 2023 to actually become a reality (the biggest obstacle, but not the only one, has been Spain's objection to Spanish not being one of the official languages of the EU patent system–the ultimate solution was to effectively give Spain an opt-out from it)
trap is a UNIX sh built-in. Is this for Windows only?
Power steering didn't want to engage after being parked. Too hard to turn manually with it off. Reboot didn't immediately work, but worked after sitting for a while.

I mean, kinda sucks, but not really a horror story IMHO.

If it had happened while driving, that would have been something else. Also a bit surprised it was too hard to turn with assistance off, I assume it actually was actively resisting movement.
> All the market power is with the providers

How does that work? Do the providers have cartels that set prices?
Well, Israel said they were only for Hezbollah members. Israel also says it only missile-strikes Hamas bases. In both cases, the corpses of civilians say differently.
No one wants to look at actual data to confirm the claim in the headline?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA

Nothing like that claim appears to be true.
Corrected link

https://jadenarceneaux.com/posts/my-single-worst-experience-...

TLDR: The power steering failed for no discernible reason (whole parked.) Rebooting did nothing, and it went away after letting the car sit for an hour.
Yes. I don't know if that's the primary factor that gives them their market power; it might be even simpler than that. But yes, they absolutely do.

Unless you're Kaiser, in which case you're the insurer and most of the providers, which is the whole idea behind Kaiser. But every other insurer --- and overwhelmingly, Americans aren't on Kaiser --- is beholden to providers. And of course, Kaiser competes with providers for service providers and vendors.
Stupid question but does that mean the “discount” comes from tax dollars? i.e. medical costs are spread out more but we’re also collectively spending more of our income on it?
I saw a tweet
Lincoln was president during the US Civil War
The overwhelming counterpoint that I'm making is that it's not a disaster and hasn't been one, now for 25 years. It's been an overwhelming success by any measure.

Where's the evidence of disaster?
We are definitely heading into untreaded territory. It is one thing to use Chinese EVs, but using a knowledge system that will be censored (not that other countries won't be censored) and trained in a way that may not align with a nation's beliefs is a whole different matter.
It was a decision of Biden to keep giving them weapons after they kept using the weapons to bomb schools etc.

Usually, if you don't support the bombing of schools, you tell someone to stop bombing schools, and they keep bombing schools anyway, you might consider taking away their bombs. Unless maybe you aren't actually bothered by the bombing of schools.
They're fast enough for me on CPU even.
They do cover your physical security requirements, which is still important.
Neither one put fascists in power. Both ones were elected.
> taken out of the taxes of the person receiving the emergency care,

if it's that catastropic, I imagine their income would fall drastically that year, or years. What taxes?
1. Sufficiently advanced routers that have such functionality are expensive and generally complex to manage

2. The reason tools like Little Snitch are valuable is they instantly indicate that a connection was attempted, indicate which binary/app attempted it, and allow you to decide whether or not to allow the connection in realtime

Being able to associate a specific action you’re taking (e.g. clicking a button in a specific app) with a specific network request isn’t really feasible when the device keeping track is not the device you’re currently using.

It’s significantly harder to retroactively analyze connections once you’ve completely lost the context of what initiated the connection.

The only way to make a centralized device achieve the same thing is to institute a default-deny policy, but carefully allowing only the connections you want becomes tedious and quickly leads to just giving up for practical reasons.
Almost all of those commits (for years) are one-liner patches to documentation and/or spellcheck dictionaries. Do not mistake activity for development. The entire objective of the current Openoffice developers is convincing people that the project is still alive. The only new feature development happens when someone backports something from Libreoffice (which is getting more difficult as Openoffice falls further behind) or panicked development to fix the onslaught of CVEs.

It's been over year since the last release, because there is no release manager. 4.2.0 was scheduled for "2024" and they have about two days left to hit that target. They published the dev preview for this version in 2019. They still don't support Apple Silicon nor do they yet have a build for 64-bit Windows.

If you bring your concerns to the developers mailing list, they call you a sock puppet and return to fiddling with localization files. The localization is supposedly the main blocker for the 4.2.0 release but they're not even sure if it's done.

Just use Libreoffice.
Perhaps off topic, not sure, but does anyone have opinions on the easiest way to add bilingual TTS? I am trying to make Mandarin language learning decks and having free automated TTS would be very useful.

I've tried out AwesomeTTS but found it a bit too complicated. Just want to automatically add TTS with one click ideally.
Yeah, if a server/workstation has a proprietary motherboard you should just keep the whole thing together and sell it as a unit.
We're talking about adminstering and leading large-scale empires, which is enough of a difficulty, and doing it in the special circumstances of the Incas. And as part of that, developing and advancing these technologies and all the precursors to it - culture, education, skills, technology itself, and political support for it, all on that large scale.

If you think that's easy or normal, consider that it is hardly ever done. Few accomplish what the Incas did, much less with their challenges (see the OP regarding those). For an example, look at China in the mid-to-late 19th century, a place with far more advantages, as they tried to adopt technology.

Edit: From the OP:

"... they managed to create the largest empire ever seen in the Americas – a sprawling two-million-sq-km civilisation that extended across parts of modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina – encompassing as many as 12 million people and 100 languages. It was roughly 10 times the size of the Aztec Empire and had twice its population. Remarkably, the Inca managed to forge this vast society without the wheel, the arch, money, iron or steel tools, draft animals capable of ploughing fields or even a written language."
Memories are very much subject to confirmation bias and sampling bias. Basing knowledge on personal experience is not solid epistemology. Further, the "I was alive and remember all of the media landscape at a time 50 years ago" is an appeal to authority fallacy. I don't personally dispute your recollections at all, and that is your impression and lived experience - but it does not make it facts. Extrapolating from an individuals experience is liable to be very faulty, again, poor epistemology.
See also the rule of three (repetitions before you extract a function, and clients before you extract a library)
Whilst not a train guy, I found this talk at Laracon AU to be pretty entertaining...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPzSdyroRM
You can buy it as long as you also have an HSA account, which you should have anyway because it’s pre tax.
Agreed, and that's always a problem when evaluating political (and some other) performance. It's easy to say 'they could have done better'; it's easy to say 'they couldn't have done more in the circumstances'.
It's possible to use bazel to do this. You need to be very explicit (The Bazel Way(tm)), but in exchange, you can ask the graph for everything that is an rdep of a given file. This isn't always necessary in bazel (if you avoid weird integration targets, deploy targets, etc) where `bazel test //...` generally does this by default anyway. It's sometimes necessary to manually express due to incomplete graphs, tests that are not executed every time (for non-determinism, execution cost, etc), and a few other reasons but at least it's possible.
There is money in that, it just fundamentally doesn't make sense to build a subscription service for it. There are still good movies being made, but they cost money to make, and someone needs to pay for them. They cannot exist if they get thrown on a streaming service where they'll earn a pittance. HN seems to believe they have a fundamental right to watch all the movies and tv ever made for $8/month, but that was only possible due to very special circumstances that have since evaporated.

Netflix is slowly succumbing to it's inevitable fate of turning into daytime tv. That's the only space where it makes sense economically to pay a fixed subscription fee regardless of how much you consume. If you want an all you can eat buffet, don't act surprised when it isn't michelin starred.
SDKs are just bad because they are unnecessary. 90% of the time they'll be doing something that you should be doing; and because of that they'll be doing a bad job. I don't want an SDK that starts processes, wants to read my env variables or do some other sh*t like that. The best SDK is a REST/GraphQL endpoint. After all I am just querying the database of the service. I'd like to do it on my terms.
yeah, seeing the situation 40-50 years later... maybe history really does rhyme
Having doctors treat and stabilize patients because they are required by EMTALA is an entirely different animal than having catastrophic medical insurance.

Real catastrophic medical insurance caps how much you owe whereas the debt you accumulate from a doctor who was obligated to treat you is not capped. That debt follows you until you pay it off or declare bankruptcy like the 500,000 other Americans do each year.

To add insult to injury, we already spend $5000 per capita on our publicly funded healthcare system, which is enough to fund basic universal healthcare systems in other countries.

Let that sink in. We spend $11,000 per capita on healthcare per year. 45% is publicly funded with taxes and the other 55% is privately funded.

We’re already spending enough for TWO universal healthcare systems (for many countries), yet we have 500,000 filing for bankruptcy due to medical bills each year.

Based on what we’re spending, we can afford two systems: A socialist system that covers everyone and a private healthcare systems that provides world class treatments to anyone who can afford the insurance premiums.

Instead, we have two corrupt and dysfunctional systems, a lot of gaps, and a record number of people profiting off our dysfunction.
Most serious enterprises should have their API versioned.
Disclaimer: I've never believed in your product or any similar tool neither as a dev, analyst or manager (10 YOE). I think they're useful for CS competitions, clubs and so forth, but overall I see it the same way people good at Excel or Chess win competitions but that doesn't make them good analysts/devs/employees.

IMO there is a huge gap in the market for facilitating in-person interviews that no tool has really exploited yet.
I've lived snd worked in four different EU countries. Yes, each has some paperwork to do, but none came with the problems you describe. For the most part it was pretty easy, and anything that remained could be solved by paying someone a few hundred euros to assist with the relocation.
Something about State's rights. It's a mystery.
> anyone got a guide on setting up and running the business-class stuff (70B models over multiple A100, etc)?

If you need a guide, the A100 class cards are certainly not what you want. Running data center level clusters in the home is no walk in the park. You wouldn’t even be able to power a decent sized cluster without getting an electrician involved for proper power. Networking is expensive. Even second-hand it all adds up fast. Don’t underestimate how much it would cost.

Getting some 3090s in a case with a big gaming PSU is the way to go for home use. If you really want A100 level, rent it from a cloud provider. Trying to build your own cluster would be like lighting money on fire for a rapidly depreciating asset.
> one of the biggest producers of refined aluminum

I googled for it. It is not even in the top 10. Norway is #8. My guess: Hydro power from Norway fjords is much cheaper than geothermal power from Iceland.
Hey swyx, hope you're doing well, too (shoot me an email if you see this: ryan.glover@cheatcode.co).

Would love it if someone could get Patrick's attention on this. They need to move back toward the Amber Feng era of API design [1].

[1] https://amberonrails.com/building-stripes-api